Brian Hayes (scientist) quotes

The fact is, winding and dusting and fixing somebody else's clock is boring. (Brian Hayes (scientist))

The condensation of all property in the hands of one individual is an economic catastrophe-something like the formation of a black hole in astrophysics. It's obviously bad news for the majority of the people, who are left penniless. But even if you happen to be the big winner, your victory may prove hollow. Although you have all the riches in the world, you can't buy a thing, because no one else has goods to sell.

Brian Hayes (scientist)

If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by the prevention of drowning, and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war.

Brian Hayes (scientist)

How can we measure the effects if we can't even count the dead to the nearest million?

Brian Hayes (scientist)

By the way, the = notation was invented by Robert Recorde (1510-1558). He choose two parallel lines as a symbol of equality " because noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle."

Brian Hayes (scientist)

In 1948 John Archibald Wheeler, in a telephone conversation with his student Richard Feynman, proposed the delightful hypothesis that there is just one electron in the universe.

Brian Hayes (scientist)

I'm not a gambling person, but I've been around long enough and I know how to play it.

Brian Hayes (scientist)